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There are many resources you can access to support you at home. Your class teacher will be planning activities to support your child. We know some children with SEND will avoid accessing Seesaw - please discuss any concerns with Mrs Beale and she will seek support.
The wellbeing of your child is very important to us.

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Really useful blog and links on how to structure your day and support your child  - even has some training for you

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Homeschooling During Coronavirus - tips on creating structure for parents

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We explore what parents do to create structure and routine whilst they are homeschooling during coronavirus. We include social stories and ideas activities.

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In this section you will find activities to help develop your child's understanding of concepts.

Many children struggle with understanding and using concept vocabulary. A concept is a word that usually describes an object or person in some way. They might describe the position of an object (e.g. in, under, behind) how it looks or feels (e.g. wet, rough) or its size (e.g. tall, small). Concepts also describe the order objects, people or actions happen in (e.g. first, before, last, after next).

They are all very important words for your child to understand so they can join in lots of different activities at school.

Try to use any new concept words as many times as possible in lots of different situations. You may need to explain the meanings of concept words as you go along.

"That means you put your shoes on" (pause while your child puts their shoes on)

"That's right. Now put your coat on" (pause while your child puts their coat on)

"Well done. You put your shoes on first".

Your child may need to hear instructions a few times. Remember to give them lots of encouragement - it's sometimes hard to learn new concept words especially ones involving sequence e.g. first, last, before and after.

Use these games to help your child practise important concept words.

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In this section you will find activities to help develop your child's understanding of concepts. Many children struggle with understanding and using concept vocabulary. A concept is a word that usually describes an object or person in some way. They might describe the position of an object (e.g.

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You need to sign up with the Seesaw Class App and the Seesaw Family App. Call the school number or email admin@whitefieldprimaryschool.co.uk for help.

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Sharing Music from RESONATE MUSIC HUB

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Joe Wickes daily, Just Dance, Steph's challenges

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Help your child with their independence and their writing. Developing good  fine motor skills every day at 11am from an excellent Occupational Therapist

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Fine Motor Activities with Kim GriffinOT - GriffinOT

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OT Kim Griffin gives daily fine motor activity ideas for children to follow at home with their parents during the Covid-19 school closures.

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Access these via iplayer or the red button on your remote when you are on BBC. Lessons to support all year groups daily. Some of these which link to our curriculum will be shared directly in seesaw.

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Resources to support all aspects of learning and family.

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Free primary and secondary school teaching resources - BBC Teach

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Thousands of free curriculum-mapped videos for your classroom, arranged by subject and age-group; Live Lessons presented by top BBC talent; educational campaigns including Super Movers and Bring the Noise.

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A digital learning space for your pupils and a toolkit for you, so that you can search, plan, allocate and assess all in one place.

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The essential motor skills required for handwriting success - GriffinOT

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Well developed gross and fine motor skills are essential for a a child to be successful with their handwriting. Here we discuss five handwriting essentials.

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Time to Come In, Bear: A Children's Story About Social Distancing

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Philosophy and wider links to our curriculum

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Life Skills Worksheets

These are an ongoing project so will be added to soon. This is the first batch. Kitchen labelling etc.

Halloween Online Safety Social Story

A little social story for those who may come across images that disturb them when searching Halloween. Created with Widgit online.

D-Day Resources

Here are some quick worksheets to support teaching about D-Day - 6th June 1944! Including Dominoes, vocabulary, numeracy. 6 worksheets total. You may also like our VE day sensory story. and we have a whole page on Remembrance day teaching resources

People Who Help Us SEN Topic Resources

People who help us (Police, Fire Brigade, Nurses etc) have their own page of free printable resources.

Sign up for Quidco a great cashback site here. If you are planning on buying something on Amazon this link will give us a little bit of revenue (no cost to you)

SEN Literacy Resources

These preposition worksheets are based on colourful semantics. Language and Communication Commenting Board. This is a great simple literacy activity where the learners comment on the picture.

Download the Symbol supported sentence construction printable worksheets, students can circle the correct words, you could laminate and dry-wipe these or classic cutting and sticking. These are hopefully useful in planning a literacy lesson. They can easily be made interactive through adding pictures of the children.

Emoji Emotions Resources For SEN

Download the Emoji Emotions 3 worksheet bundle here. I used this as an activity to back up emotions work. I printed a lot of the emojis and hid them in a sensory tray. Once the student found one they could tick it off. Included in the bundle is a sheet of printable dominoes. Emotional education resources are so tricky to generalise but i hope these resources facilitate the teaching of emotions to some extent.

New Friends Worksheet

You can stick images of the child and their new friends and classmates onto this sheet. When I did this one child expressed concern about people already being friends.

Downloads New_Friends_Worksheet
Roald Dahl's Matilda Worksheets

Two labelling worksheets for Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey.

Download the Zip file with editable Matilda Printable worksheets Here.

Snowy Day Printable Checklist.

Just quickly made this as it's snowing, Tick off the snowy day images as you find them! Could use on a walk or as a winter scavenger hunt.

Local or National Newspaper SEN Worksheet.

You can use this to find specific text and images as you look through a paper (local or national). I.e Find a word beginning with "th" find an image of a person etc.
Local paper English text and images
Name the Sea Creature

Super Simple sheet students just tick the correct name of the sea animal.

Name the sea creature Download here.

Minibeast SEN Handwriting Practice

I've just started a minibeast topic so expect some resources to be added. To start with download this Minibeast handwriting practice sheet.

New Year Resources 2018!

Probably only useful this week but here is a worksheet and a questions game to play with your class.

Download - New year holiday diary resources here.

Religion & Beliefs SEN Printable Resources.

Some of these were worksheets designed around the education aspect of the PREVENT duty. Just general worksheets around the key religions in the UK. At this time I haven't made up in-depth explanations of each religion. I hope you find these useful in promoting education of beliefs and religions.

Prevent_Beliefs worksheet

Prevent_Beliefs_Discussion_task

Prevent_Beliefs_Explanation

Prevent_Beliefs_Missing_Letter worksheet

Prevent_Beliefs_Word_Letter_Building

Religious_Beliefs_wordmat

Rules of religions
Firefighting Resources.

Here is an awesome video bingo (well matching as everyone would win but feel free to delete some images to make a bingo) using a fire engine video from Kent Fire and rescue(Click here for youtube link). I love doing these and the students find them really engaging. The black and white page is if you have a student that prefers to match or won't look at the screen (Click HERE for more). There is also a screenshot from the video used to make a build your own fire engine worksheet or cut and laminate as a jigsaw.
Click here to download the worksheet and bingo boards

Computing/ICT Resources.

Student voice is essential in developing an online safety (e-safety) policy for SEND. The threats and specific challenges facing autistic children online is not an area that is well enough researched or understood. This communication board may help you find out how the students use the internet.
Online Safety Communication Board Simple online safety matching worksheet.

Communicating with and without technology worksheet.
David Walliams The First Hippo on The Moon.

Symbol-based simple worksheets (P4-7 )if you are reading the book " The First Hippo on the moon" in class. No Copyright infringement intended. Find all in this powerpoint - first_hippo-on-moon_worksheets.

Phonics Resources/SPAG Resources

These support the read write inc phonics scheme. I used these to try and embed phonics within group reading. We have a number of students who like dinosaurs and the Gruffalo is a great book with an excellent website. No copyright infringement intended!

We also have a post written by an experienced Early Years (EYFS) lead on making your Phonics lessons inclusive.

Phonics Gruffalo worksheet letter sounds Phonics dinosaur worksheet Letter Sounds
My most popular resource on TES resources. Here are some simple overwriting sheets to support Read Write Inc click on the speed sounds set you need. These are a faded font for easy overwriting.

ckubf , elhshr, inpgo, jwvth, masdt, zchqx.

Numeracy Resources.

One of the most popular free resources on TES is this overwriting number task sheet. Using a dotted font. You can laminate and reuse this as a daily task that facilitates numeracy skills and fine motor skills.
Number formation practi ce - 1-10 Dotted
ASDAN Transition Challenge Worksheets.

There are many more ASDAN Resources on the ASDAN page.

Click Here to Download Breakfast ASDAN worksheet - Students can create an English or continental breakfast, what makes this lesson even more effctive is if you can use this as a follow up to a practical teaching session to enable the learner to put the lesson in context.

ASDAN Taking the Lead Birthday List - A sheet your students can add friends birthdays onto.

ASDAN Change Reciept Worksheet Transition Challenge

Science Resources.

Download the worksheet here.
Just a crisp taste test sheet. Put three crisp flavours out labelled ABC and guess the flavour.

We have just published a new post on STEM Provocations linked to the story - The Three Little pigs

PHSE Wellbeing/Online Safety Lesson Resources

This is a stranger danger/Safer stranger worksheet pack. Widgit symbol supported. Also contains a page for new teachers or carers. They should wear an ID badge etc. Includes the Makaton sign for a stranger and other vocabulary thats important to know.

character building worksheet

I based these on the resources from The Jubilee Centre

Christmas Dinner
Christmas dinner Free Printable Worksheet
This is a great teacher resource, here is a worksheet I have used a few times for ASDAN transition challenge. It involves making up a plate of what you would like for your Christmas dinner. Widgit symbols and images.

Example IEP

This is an example of a simple IEP (Individual Education Plan) for educators to use with students with additional needs. Does not include b ehaviour breakdown. For use with pupils with autism or learning difficulty

EU Referendum Bingo - Brexit Bingo!

Click the image below or here to download a widgit symbolled 10 card BREXIT bingo about this years referendum. Leave or Remain? I've tried to be balanced. EU Referendum Bingo for students to reflect on the BREXIT shambles.

I hope these free SEN teaching resources have helped you prepare some teaching material and creating a lesson plan no matter what curriculum model you follow. Each pedagogical model or curricula designed for SEND learners is unique and often requires teaching resources to be adapted for each school, classroom or learner to engage with. The core of teaching and learning is, however, the passion of the teacher. I hope this page of resources for teachers helps you create an inclusive classroom with some engaging lesson plans, for more information about teaching strategies see this post. As well as the resources the learning environment is essential here are 5 ways to ensure every learner is able to engage.

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A range of free printable SEN teaching resources used with Autistic pupils aged 4-18, literacy, numeracy, topic and themed resources.

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Monday and Friday assemblies. We will join with Oak Academy assembly on a Thursday

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STAYING SAFE ONLINE. FAMILY ACTIVITY. Thurday 16th April 2020.

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Look at the poster together as a family. Talk about it then design a poster below.

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These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the home.

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Our Home Learning Packs contain all you will need to ensure your children can continue to learn during any school closures or periods of isolation. You can access the packs in the drop-down option further down the page.

The Spring Term Home Learning Packs include:

GPS and Reading Home Learning Resources for two weeks

Phonics content for KS1

Guidance and Answers

EYFS Only -Phonics, Maths and Practical Ideas Pack

Some of our previous Home Learning Packs from earlier this year are still available. If you're looking for resources from previous weeks, you can find them by changing the week in the drop down option below.

The Autumn Term Home Learning Packs include:

GPS and Reading Home Learning Resources for two weeks

Guidance and Answers

EYFS Only - Practical Ideas Pack

The Original Closure Home Learning Packs include:

Home Learning Resources for two weeks

Guidance and Answers

Practical Ideas Kit

Letter to Parents

Step-by-step Answer Video Tutorials

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We have created resource packs for each year group to help your students learn from home. Each pack contains all you'll need to ensure your children continue to learn during any school closure.

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Tune in for sensory easy home learning activities and free parent support and training

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Autism Initiatives

Autism Initiatives has a wide range of services available.

Autism Initiatives makes a difference. People with autism are transforming their lives while being supported by us.

Tim describes it as finding "shelter under the Autism Initiatives umbrella." He added, "I'd achieved very little in my life. But in the three years I've been coming here I've been to Rome and learned a foreign language. All I had needed was a little encouragement. I feel that doors have been opened now that were not open before. Being here fills me with optimism - I've been shown that more things are possible and with the right support I can achieve anything I set my mind to. I live every day rather than just go through the motions. I can look forward to the future now."

If you want further information about any of the services listed on this website, or would like to chat about what we offer in your area please complete our contact form and we will respond to you promptly.

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Autism Initiatives Autism Initiatives has a wide range of services available. Autism Initiatives makes a difference. People with autism are transforming their lives while being supported by us. Tim describes it as finding "shelter under the Autism Initiatives umbrella." He added, "I'd achieved very little in my life.

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Liverpool parent and carers forum, sharing advice, support and online groups and training

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We have our next virtual coffee session on Tuesday 5th May 10:00am - 12:00pm!

We will be joined by:-
* Local Authority- ASD Training Team
* Local Authority- Sensory Service Hearing and Visual Impairment...
* ADDvanced Solutions Community Network
as always our co-hosts The Isabella Trust!

Our guests offer a variety of support, but it's more important to hear what is on offer at the unprecedented time for our families!

We know this is a very difficult and exceptional times for all parents/carers, children/young people and families. We are wanting to continue to offer our support as much as possible with

If you would like to join us this Tuesday, then please email us at livpac@hotmail.co.uk and we will send you the link! It's really easy to do!

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We have our next virtual coffee session on Tuesday 5th May 10:00am - 12:00pm! We will be joined by:- * Local Authority- ASD Training Team * Local Authority- Sensory Service Hearing and Visual Impairment... * ADDvanced Solutions Community Network as always our co-hosts The Isabella Trust!

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Direct support by phone, training for parents and staff

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I used the self referral service for both me and my son having been refused the nhs pathway by the g... p for the children that dont bounce around constantly this is an essential service to have as your just fobbed off racheal was amazing so empathetic and knowledgable now i know what ive basically thought for the past 4 years thank you so much you ll never know the stress this has saved me x

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Support and online training

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The Isabella Trust, Liverpool. 4.2K likes. The Isabella Trust aims to support parents and carers of autistic children and children who experience sensory processing difficulties.

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To get an email notification of each update, you can log in and select the pink button in the grey box 'Notify me when updated'. We've listed our updates at the bottom of this page.

Key messages

COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It's caused by a virus called coronavirus.

It is important that we all follow official guidance and information provided by the governments and health agencies so we can protect our families and other people who may become seriously ill if they are infected with COVID-19.

Everyone, of all ages, must stay at home to help stop the spread of coronavirus in the UK. Avoid social interactions and only leave your home for essential reasons. If you do go out always make sure you stay at least 2 metres away from other people. See more on GOV.UK

If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (high temperature or a continuous cough) stay at home for 7 days. If you live with other people they should stay at home for 14 days from the day the first person got the symptoms.

Regularly wash your hands for at least 20 seconds (here's a handy video), and if you cannot wash your hands use hand sanitiser.

If your child has a medical condition or injury they should continue to access treatment and attend medical appointments as recommended by their hospital, GP or healthcare professionals. We have added a poster to explain how to access help during this time - see below for both English and Welsh language versions. (You can also download the posters below.

If your child has received a letter from the NHS to advise them to 'shield' during the COVID-19 outbreak, we have developed a set of frequently asked questions to support your child and family during the 'shielding' 12 week period.

Talking to children and young people about COVID-19

Guidance from Children's Commissioners

Children's Commissioners across the UK have created guidance especially for children and young people:

Stay at home activities

Tips for parents

Books, posters and colouring in to download

Podcast

Dr Ranj (paediatrician and TV doctor) has a one-off podcast where he answers children's questions on coronavirus.

Online resources

Medicines advice

Visiting hospital

Staying safe advice from UK Governments

UK-wide

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Condition and situation specific resources for families and children

Autism and ADHD

Cancer

Cardiology

Crohn's and colitis

Diabetes

Disability and complex health needs

Contact, a charity for families with disabled children, has an information page on COVID-19, covering education, welfare benefits and the Coronavirus Bill, and more.

WellChild, a UK charity for children and parents with complex needs, has advice about what to do if your child is unwell but not with COVID-19.

The Council for Disabled Children has a COVID-19 support and guidance webpage, including easy read posters about COVID-19 and information from other organisations.

Special Needs Jungle has a collection of information for children with special needs, including how to create an effective space for home learning and advice on your child's Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).

Together for Short Lives has a set of frequently asked questions for families of children with serious life-limiting conditions.

The British Academy of Childhood Disability has resources for those caring for children with medical complexity or a life-limiting condition.

Council for Disabled Children has compiled resources, support and guidance about coronavirus for children and young people.

Public Health England has an easy read factsheet on looking after your health and body (PDF), which can be used for young people with learning disabilities.

NSPCC has advice for parents and carers on supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation has information and resources for the families of people with severe learning disabilities.

Epilepsy

Mental health and wellbeing

Overseas visitors

Newborn babies

Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Renal

Respiratory

Sensory

Social care

Young carers

Other advice for parents and families

Keeping children safe from accidents at home

Coping with a crying baby

Safeguarding children

E-safety

Education and exams

Explaining bereavement to children

Sleep

Financial advice and support

Updates in this version (1 May 2020)

Newborn babies: added a link to advice from the Institute of Health Visiting and RCPCH on the 6 - 8 week check during COVID-19.

Updates in version 27 April 2020

Added NSPCC resources on talking to children, children with special educational needs, keeping children safe and wellbeing.

Added link to resources for families of people with severe learning disabilities from the Challenging Behaviour Foundation.

Added link to COVID-19 storybook for children that is available in 30 languages.

Added links to E-safety resources from the UK Government and the Children's Commissioner.

Updates in version 20 April 2020

Added Welsh language version of our poster, Advice for parents during coronavirus

Pregnancy and breastfeeding: added link to NHS Inform advice on COVID-19: Pregnancy and newborn babies.

UK wide and England: updated links.

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COVID-19 - resources for parents and carers

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If you'd like to make a donation in place of a payment, then we'd be delighted for you to support the NHS at this time

Three weeks ago, I wrote a little story to help the kids in my class come to terms with school shutdown. In the past few days, it's been downloaded over 50,000 times and shared by hundreds of schools with their families. Now, I've teamed up with incredible illustrator, Rebecca Sampson, to create this marvelous free storybook!

Parsley Mimblewood is a home-schooled kid who sees herself as something of an expert on "How to NOT go to School". The story follows her daily whimsical adventures along with her 11 animals and 7 imaginary friends. Each chapter explores an issue that might be weighing on children's minds at the moment such as missing friends, dealing with emotions and feeling cooped up.

I've been overwhelmed to hear from parents of all kinds who've used this book as a tool to help their families discuss emotions and well-being during this time. Thank you to everyone who's shared, helped with and read the book.

Tell your friends and family about Parsley and How to NOT go to School

Check out How to NOT go to School by primary teacher @_MichaelForde. A story to help kids come to terms with school shutdown.
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What the readers said...
Delightful short book which explores how learning at home is different to school, led by a home schooled narrator. Explores ideas such as letting your curiosity take the reigns in learning, how to look after your grown up, and a constructive way to help with feelings. Author is a primary school teacher, and from the book you can really tell that he gets the kid's mindset.
Amazon Review

Gr eat, funny and helpful book for children in this strange time. Would recommend this to anyone with primary age kids.

Amazon Review
This wonderful short book gives a great sense of adventure and perspective for children currently off school due to lockdown, wherever they are from. It made me laugh out loud and is really from an inspired sense of imagination, which kids love. The questions to help kids understand how they might be feeling are gentle as well as fun, exactly how to open space for positive chats. I loved it and would highly recommend!
Amazon Review

Many thanks to Rebecca Sampson and Sarah Beswick - two incredible artists who heard about the story and offered to help. Sarah designed the front cover and Rebecca illustrated it as well as creating the marvelous illustrations inside the book.

Rebecca Sampson 2020

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Book based learning at home and school

Here you can find beautiful stories to enjoy with your family. These stories are also accompanied by a wealth of fun activities to do at home or at school. Don't forget to download your FREE Story Time Counts: Book Based Learning resource for each of the stories and share with us some of the fantastic activities that you do. There are activities here that can be used from EYFS all the way through to Year 6.

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Story Time Counts: Grandad's Island

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Book based learning at home and school Here you can find beautiful stories to enjoy with your family. These stories are also accompanied by a wealth of fun activities to do at home or at school.

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We want to share some tips on looking after ourselves while schools are closed and we have to stay at home.

Let's check in with the CUES-Ed team...

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This is Ed and Chloe who will help us along the way...

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Can you spot 4 really good ways of Looking After Ourselves in the picture below?

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What can also help is to Plan your day

Our brains quite like knowing what is coming next! And planning helps make sure you have time to fit everything in!

Sometimes we might feel worried or anxious about things - so we've included some tips for that too.

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Welcome to We want to share some tips on looking after ourselves while schools are closed and we have to stay at home. PRESS the play button on the TV to learn more. You've spotted the 4 things that will keep your brain amazing!

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This is a game from Peaceable Kingdom, known for it's cooperative style game play. All the players work together to get the owls home before the sun rises. Great fun for practicing social skills like cooperating, working together and communicating. Plus it's just adorable!!

I just recently discovered HABA games thanks to Table by Teresa. What I love about the games from HABA is that they involve cooperative game play, rather than competitive play amongst players. For children who struggle with managing those competitive type of games, these games are a good place to start. Animal Upon Animal is a stacking game where you work together to build as tall of a structure of animals as you can. We've played according to the directions but we also just free build which the kids love too. I totally recommend this game!

This is a Bingo style game. There is a container where the tiles are kept, the dealer pulls it forward and back and reveals two tiles. Whoever calls out the tile first gets it for their board. My kids like to take turns being the dealer, and my 3 year old can manage to get the tiles back in with no adult help. It's such a great game to increase vocabulary, practice matching, pick up on patterns, and just work on social interactions. There have been many arguments over who said the word first. How do you solve that problem? It's a good skill to practice with your family before you have your kids play with their friends.

One of my dearest friends let me borrow this game after my son played it at her house. My kids love to try to catch the fireflies and they have learned to negotiate taking turns putting in the fireflies. It also keeps them entertained for a long time. It's adorable!

My son loves this game! He enjoys being able to actually use a hammer and hit something. You also have to learn some self control while hitting, because if you knock all the pieces out and the skater falls, you lose! On a couple of occasions, we have played this with cousins, and there are some great lessons there about being patient and waiting your turn.

I loved playing Clue with my sister when we were kids! Several years ago, I found Clue Jr and used it when I was working with kids who needed help improving their social skills. The game was pretty easy to set up and was fun to play. They had to pay attention to clues, eliminate suspects and make guesses, just like in regular clue. This was a great game to use with kids to practice social interactions.

Fun game where you use marbles, tweezers, a little water and tissues. It's always fun to see and hear reactions when the "ice" breaks.

Each player gets a card. You have to spot the item that both cards have in common and whoever gets it first wins. There are several versions, including numbers, letters, animals and sports themes.

It's an easy pattern recognition game, but there are all sorts of patterns to choose from, so you also have to be a flexible thinker.

This game is very popular, but it can be tricky because different people play by different rules. It's important to teach your child to make sure to talk with people before the game begins so everyone is on the same page when someone picks up a draw 4 or changes the color. It's good practice to try different uno rules at home and see which ones your kids prefer.

You pick a card, put it in your headband, and then ask the people playing with you yes or no questions to try and figure out what you are. You have to think of the kinds of questions you need to ask to get you closer to your answer. It can be hilarious!

This game requires some creativity and imagination to make up stories with images you've rolled on the dice. There are several different versions of the game out there, and it's always interesting to see what adventures people tell.

This game is addicting. I used it a lot at lunch groups as a school counselor. Kids have also told me they like the sound of the beads when they get dropped into the different sections.

Another game that was very popular with the lunch group crowd. Sometimes kids would play tournaments, or have conversations about whether they played offensively (focused on winning) versus defensively (focused on preventing the other person from winning).

Everyone has probably heard the sound of the trouble pop-o-matic. I love this game because there are times you have to go back to start, and it's a perfect opportunity to show flexibility and good sportsmanship skills.

I love this game because it makes people to think about someone else's perspective. What card will be chosen as the winner will change depending on who is judging.

This game is similar to Apples to Apples, but uses pictures and captions instead. Everyone can take a turn being the judge, and the judge picks the caption that they think fits the picture best. You have to think about things from the perspective of the judge, so it's another great game to help children work on taking another person's perspective.
Note: Both Apples to Apples Junior and Bubble Talk are for 8+, but younger children can play them if they are on a team with someone who can read for them.
One of my new favorite games, this is a quick and easy game that would work well for small groups or lunch groups. One card that made my own kids laugh out loud: List things that would make terrible pizza toppings.

If you need ideas for good toys, check out toy-ideas.com. Toy-ideas.com (instagram: @toy_ideas) is run by a Pediatric Occupational Therapist who shares her ideas for better toys for parents to choose for their kids. She also offers personalized toy recommendations, try it out!

Social Emotional Games

This game is one of my new favorite social skills games! Why? Because not only do I enjoy playing, children really enjoy playing. The main character in the game is Q, a super smart monkey but doesn't always have the greatest social awareness and doesn't always think about others. Q's Race to the Top is super simple to learn. The game has three types of cards: Blue YOU Cards, Green Q Cards, Orange DO Cards. The counselor in me loves the Blue and Green cards, and the mom in me loves the Orange cards. they get kids moving and doing physical things that are fun and a little challenging. It's perfect for a child who may have a hard time sitting still for a whole game. And the beauty is it makes children stay invested and involved with the game. Having the physical component is the perfect way to balance out the talking parts of the game.

Designed by therapists, this game is meant to help spark conversations and connections between kids and adults. There are 4 different decks of cards - person, place, emotion and skill. It's a good way to start tough conversations about big feelings, tough experiences or challenging situations.

PeaceMakers is a deck of cards that is meant to help kids practice mindfulness and connect with others. These are great cards to use in at a mealtime or during a family meeting to spark conversations to help kids get a better understanding of their emotions and how they can handle themselves in a safe and healthy way.

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This is a game from Peaceable Kingdom, known for it's cooperative style game play. All the players work together to get the owls home before the sun rises. Great fun for practicing social skills like cooperating, working together and communicating. Plus it's just adorable!! I just recently discovered HABA games thanks to Table by Teresa.